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Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Sachindra Joshi, Bangalore, IN;

Raghuram Krishnapuram, Bangalore, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/93 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/93 (2019.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating probabilistic annotations for entities and relations using reasoning and corpus-level evidence are provided herein. A method includes determining candidate entities and candidate relationships between entities from text contained within textual documents associated with a given domain; generating questions to support or refute legitimacy of a given one of the candidate entities and/or a given one of the candidate relationships; automatically determining an answer to each of the questions based on analysis of one or more additional items of knowledge pertaining to the given domain; computing a confidence score for each answer; and assigning a confidence value in support of the legitimacy of the given one of the candidate entities and/or the given one of the candidate relationships, wherein said confidence value is based on an aggregation of the confidence scores for the answers to the one or more questions.


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